On Tuesday 30th June, we have what might be a fascinating session with members of the City of Edinburgh Council, their employees, and a group of Edinburgh citizens / residents / customers / clients / service users.

We will have the opportunity to describe

• what is it like to live in Edinburgh at the moment, while we are trying to Combat the Recession
• what we think of Community Transport
• how we might use web2 and citizens ideas on current service to re-design services for the benefit of the user

We have a number of elderly people, a number of young people and some middle-aged as well. There is a diverse group, and we are all very grateful to the Councillors for agreeing to meet.

Is Edinburgh really an Inspiring Capital ( you credit ‘Edinburgh Inspiring Capital,’ use our logo and link to our website http://www.edinburgh-inspiringcapital.com. )

or as one of Polly Toynbee’s commenters in the Guardian said last week

” Evidence of improvement, Polly? What evidence? I live in Edinburgh, and all I can see is wrecked roads, inaccessible hospitals, unaffordable housing, closing shops, hundreds of bloody CCTV cameras spying on me and utterly crappy public services which have been deteriorating for a decade or so. ”